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Tensor product of two transcendental flat algebras is not a field?

I'm considering the correctness of the following assertion, which is related to linear disjointness (I'm trying to generalize it to subalgebras), What does "linearly disjoint" mean for ...
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Frobenius twist of a field

Let $k$ be a field of characteristic $p>0$ (not necessarily perfect). Consider the Frobenius endomorphism $F : k \to k$, $x \mapsto x^p$. I am curious about what happens when we take $k$ as a $k$-...
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Splitting subspaces and finite fields

Hellow. I'm sure that the following is truth, but I can't prove it. Let $R<S<K, R=\mathrm{GF}(q),\ S= \mathrm{GF}(q^n), \ K= \mathrm{GF}(q^{mn})$ be a chain of finite fields and $A = \{\theta\...
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Is there a field which is the union of finitely many proper subfields?

Is there a field which is the union of finitely many proper subfields?
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